Awe and exhiliration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Can a book change your life? I’m not sure it can. I think it can influence the way you think for a time, but it’s usually people and events that create change. However, a book that made me stop and think was Lolita.
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If I could choose one book to be able to read again for the first time, it would be Lolita.
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Maybe my favorite book of all time.
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This is the book that I most want to read again for the first time.
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Lolita is one of my all time favorite books by Nabokov.
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I am an evangelist for Lolita.
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